- cross-posted to:
- piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- cross-posted to:
- piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
(I am not affiliated with the project at all, just an end user.)
Announcement: Retirement of Readarr
We would like to announce that the Readarr project has been retired. This difficult decision was made due to a combination of factors: the project’s metadata has become unusable, we no longer have the time to remake or repair it, and the community effort to transition to using Open Library as the source has stalled without much progress.
Third-party metadata mirrors exist, but as we’re not involved with them at all, we cannot provide support for them. Use of them is entirely at your own risk. The most popular mirror appears to be rreading-glasses.
Without anyone to take over Readarr development, we expect it to wither away, so we still encourage you to seek alternatives to Readarr.
Key Points
- Effective Immediately: The retirement takes effect immediately. Please stay tuned for any possible further communications.
- Support Window: We will provide support during a brief transition period to help with troubleshooting non metadata related issues.
- Alternative Solutions: Users are encouraged to explore and adopt any other possible solutions as alternatives to Readarr.
- Opportunities for Revival: We are open to someone taking over and revitalizing the project. If you are interested, please get in touch.
- Gratitude: We extend our deepest gratitude to all the contributors and community members who supported Readarr over the years.
Thank you for being part of the Readarr journey. For any inquiries or assistance during this transition, please contact our team.
Sincerely,
The Servarr Team
The github repo has been archived.
Fixed Lidarr: https://github.com/blampe/hearring-aid
And Radarr: https://github.com/blampe/rreading-glasses
Basically they replace the broken closed source metadata server for both with a working one.
The author is also in talks with Readarr to take over the project.
Wait, Lidarr also has broken metadata search?
Yea, it’s been broken for weeks. You can’t search for new artists at all.
It got sorta fixed a while ago and now I can search for artists, but adding them doesn’t work. Their metadata server crapped out months ago and they’ve been fixing it ever since, should be done soonish. Or not.
It didn’t get sorta fixed, the few results that currently show up are just cached results from Cloudflare. The metadata server also didn’t crap out; MusicBrainz made breaking changes to their API.
From the latest updates in the Discord, most of the rebuild work is done. The devs now just need to find the time to get it spun up and working for users - I think one of them is currently in the middle of a move if I read correctly, so it’s just a matter of patience right now.
The metadata proxy that mirrors musicbrainz DB is broken (read: Imploded).
For now artist/album search is broken.
Dunno about metadata-tagging for existing entries
Yeah this sucks but honestly it never really worked well for me, ebooks are horribly underserved in the media world.
Having to run two instances to support audio and text books was the deal breaker for me.
Now I use audiobookshelf, and it’s easy enough to find everything I need on mam without an extra search layer.
https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf
Is this what you are talking about? How dues this work for funding audio books? That’s my biggest problem
I’m actually using Audiobookshelf as my main server. I just wanted Readarr to get metadata and organize the folders. Do you have any workflow tips for that?
The best way I found to do this was using audiobookshelfs upload feature and grabbing the meta data before upload. This sorts the folders for you
It’s sort of weird to upload because it’s already on the hard drive where I want it to go… Just has to get squeezed back and forth through the pipes of my LAN a few times to go through this process.
Yeah it’s not perfect. I normally just download and upload from my phone so works for me but it’s not a very automated or neat solution but it does work and uploads don’t take to long
mam?
Just a source. Not a metadata provider.
And trying to find metadata for books is like searching for a music cd from propular artists.
Example: https://musicbrainz.org/release-group/afca53c1-c5b3-3f91-8590-281b0aa12722They are a beast in itself.
Multiple releases/revisions spread across languages and/or countries.
Any alternative apart from lazylibrarian ?
Not right now
Where are the vibe coders when you need them ;)
Hopefully, slowly but surely destroying a number of for profit businesses.